And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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More Bjork Quotes
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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